Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

Titan's interior structure and dynamics after the Cassini-Huygens mission

C Sotin, K Kalousová, G Tobie - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The Cassini-Huygens mission that explored the Saturn system during the period 2004–2017
revolutionized our understanding of Titan, the only known moon with a dense atmosphere …

Selection and characteristics of the Dragonfly landing site near Selk crater, Titan

RD Lorenz, SM MacKenzie, CD Neish… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The factors contributing to the initial selection of a dune site near the Selk impact structure
on Titan as the first landing site for the Dragonfly mission are described. These include …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lid tectonics: Perspectives from silicate planets, dwarf planets, large moons, and large asteroids

RJ Stern, T Gerya, PJ Tackley - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
To better understand Earth's present tectonic style–plate tectonics–and how it may have
evolved from single plate (stagnant lid) tectonics, it is instructive to consider how common it …

A global geomorphologic map of Saturn's moon Titan

RMC Lopes, MJ Malaska, AM Schoenfeld… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic
landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the Solar System. Despite …

Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

SM MacKenzie, SPD Birch, S Hörst… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Thanks to the Cassini–Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and
Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic …

[HTML][HTML] Titan's cold case files-Outstanding questions after Cassini-Huygens

CA Nixon, RD Lorenz, RK Achterberg, A Buch… - Planetary and Space …, 2018 - Elsevier
The entry of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft into orbit around Saturn in July 2004 marked
the start of a golden era in the exploration of Titan, Saturn's giant moon. During the Prime …

Titan as revealed by the Cassini radar

RMC Lopes, SD Wall, C Elachi, SPD Birch… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft's arrival in July 2004. We
review the major scientific advances made by Cassini's Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) …

Dissolution on Titan and on Earth: Toward the age of Titan's karstic landscapes

T Cornet, D Cordier, TL Bahers… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Titan's polar surface is dotted with hundreds of lacustrine depressions. Based on the
hypothesis that they are karstic in origin, we aim at determining the efficiency of surface …